. Michigan bird life : a list of all the bird species known to occur in the State together with an outline of their classification and an account of the life history of each species, with special reference to its relation to agriculture ... . withratlier less white in plumage, and not quite as large. Young similar, but brown aboveand spotted with dusky below. Jjcngth of adult male 9 to 11 inches; wing to ; tail )0 to ); culmcn .03to .7F). 83 MICIirOAN BIRD LIF]]. 301. Catbird. Dumetella carolinensis (Linn.). (704) Synonyms: Cat Flycatcher, Slatc-colorcd Mockingbird.—Miiscicapa
. Michigan bird life : a list of all the bird species known to occur in the State together with an outline of their classification and an account of the life history of each species, with special reference to its relation to agriculture ... . withratlier less white in plumage, and not quite as large. Young similar, but brown aboveand spotted with dusky below. Jjcngth of adult male 9 to 11 inches; wing to ; tail )0 to ); culmcn .03to .7F). 83 MICIirOAN BIRD LIF]]. 301. Catbird. Dumetella carolinensis (Linn.). (704) Synonyms: Cat Flycatcher, Slatc-colorcd Mockingbird.—Miiscicapa carolinensis,Linn., 1766.—Tardus carolinensis, Licht., 1823.—Miniiis carolinensis, Jardine and mostof the older writers.—Gale;)scoj)tes carolinensis. Cab., 1aird, 1S64, A. (). U. Check-list, 1886, and most snbseiiuent authors.—Orpheus carolinensis. And., 1839. Figure 144- General color slate, darker above, lighter below, the whole top of thehead black, as is also the tail; under tail-coverts deep chestnut. Distribution.—Eastern United States and British Provinces, west toand including the Rocky Mountains; occasional on the Pacific coast fromBritish Columbia south to central California. Breeds from the Gulf. Fig. 144. (: From Yearbook of Department of AKriculturc, 18.) of Biological Survey. States northward to the Saskatchewan. Winters in the southern states,Cuba, and Central America to Panama. The Catbird is too well known to need careful description, being oneof our most familiar birds throughout the greater part of the state. Itenters our borders from the south usually in April, occasionally as earlyas the 10th, but more often between the 20th and the 30th, and has beenrecorded a few times as early as April 4 (Wood, Ann Arbor). It soonspreads over the whole of the Lower Peninsula and extends sparinglyinto the Upper Peninsula, where the writer found it here and there alongthe south shore of Lake Superior in the summer of 1903. It has alsobeen recorded fi
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